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Fashion Mogul Lives To Regret Mir Prophecy

PARIS, FRANCE — Six weeks after incorrectly predicting that Paris would be destroyed by Russia's Mir space station, an embarrassed Paco Rabanne has owned up to making "a huge blunder."

During the summer, the Paris fashion designer had declared that Paris would be engulfed in flames after being hit by Mir during the solar eclipse on Aug. 11. His warning was based on his reading of the work of prophet Nostradamus.

But as the sun reappeared and Paris emerged unscathed, jeering crowds held a champagne "survivors' party" outside Rabanne's Paris headquarters on the Left Bank.

"My analysis was wrong, completely wrong," Rabanne said in a television interview.